Slow Violence, Inequality, and the Environmentalism of the Poor

Rob Nixon, professor at Princeton University, received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and is the author of London Calling: V.S. Naipaul, Postcolonial Mandarin (Oxford University Press, 1992); Homelands, Harlem and Hollywood: South African Culture and the World Beyond (Routledge, 1994); and Dreambirds: The Natural History of a Fantasy (Picador, 2000).

Nixon's most recent book, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard University Press, 2011), has received four prizes: the American Book Award; the 2012 Sprout Prize from the International Studies Association for the best book in environmental studies; the 2012 Interdisciplinary Humanities Award for the best book to straddle disciplines in the humanities; and the 2013 biennial ASLE Award for the best book in environmental literary studies. Slow Violence was also selected by Choice as an outstanding book of 2011.

Additional presentations for this Hess Scholar-in-Residence event will take place Monday, March 14, through Thursday, March 17, and are open to the public.